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Partially Closed Braids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

R. S. D. Thomas
R. S. D. Thomas*
Affiliation:
Department Of Computer Science, The University Of Manitoba, WinnipegR3T 2N2
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The purpose of this paper is to define partially closed braids (§3) and to prove that every partially closed braid has a canonical form easily obtainable (§5). These objects are of interest because they can be used to represent knots tied in a string.

Braids have an obvious intuitive meaning to which we shall refer. Braids are also elements of the braid groups of E. Artin [1], defined for each integer n greater than one by the presentation

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , 01 March 1974 , pp. 99 - 107
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1974

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